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...demand for iron and steel comes from a variety of sources- indicative of the wide extent of the business recovery this winter. Railroads are purchasing much needed equipment, as was seen when the $31,500,000 issue of Pennsylvania Railroad 5% Equipment Trust Certificates was bought out last week. Another heavy buyer has been the automobile industry, which is preparing for another banner year. The increasing production attained by oil companies has led to large purchases. Likewise, the building boom is absorbing quantities of structural steel. In addition, curtailment of operation in the Ruhr district has caused appreciable foreign purchases...
After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1890, Mr. Gay taught economics at Harvard for 17 years, becoming professor in 1906. In 1908 he was appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, and during the war, because of his wide experience in economic matters, served as a member of the Commercial Economy Board of the Council of National Defense. In 1919 he resigned as Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration to become editor of the New York Evening Post...
...Critics. The critical reception of The Middle of the Road has been unenthusiastic, but, in general, favorable. Its defects are generally recognized as those of its unquestioned qualities. There is every likelihood of its wide popularity. The Author. Sir Philip Gibbs is an English journalist and novelist. His journalistic career began at the age of 21 when he became one of the editors of Cassell & Co. He is married and has one son. Cosmo Hamilton is his brother. Among publications, he has been connected with the Daily Mail, the Daily Chronicle, the Tribune. During the war he was a correspondent...
Most of it had something to do with Dr. Pritchett's report. The wide interest evoked by that report indicated not only that the man-in-the-street is humbly attentive to discussions of educational problems, but also that every good American is speedily coming to recognize that he is both ready and competent to join the discussion at a moment's notice...
...recent announcement of the discovery of the influenza germ at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, broadcasted by radio from the New York State Department of Health and given wide newspaper publicity, has on second thought, like so many other much-heralded scientific events, turned out to be less exciting than was at first supposed. The Journal of the American Medical Association, official organ of the medical profession in the United States, carries an editorial stating the residue of facts in the case, on the authority of Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Institute...